tomato 音标拼音: [təm'et
, o] [təm'ɑt
, o]
n . 西红柿,番茄
西红柿,番茄
tomato n 1 :
mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable 2 :
native to South America ;
widely cultivated in many varieties [
synonym : {
tomato }, {
love apple }, {
tomato plant }, {
Lycopersicon esculentum }]
Tomato \
To *
ma "
to \,
n .;
pl . {
Tomatoes }. [
Sp .
or Pg .
tomate ,
of American Indian origin ;
cf .
Mexican tomail .] (
Bot .)
The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({
Lycopersicum esculentun });
also ,
the plant itself .
The fruit ,
which is called also {
love apple },
is usually of a rounded ,
flattened form ,
but often irregular in shape .
It is of a bright red or yellow color ,
and is eaten either cooked or uncooked .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Tomato gall } (
Zool .),
a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines .
They are yellowish green ,
somewhat tinged with red ,
and produced by the larva of a small two -
winged fly ({
Lasioptera vitis }).
{
Tomato sphinx } (
Zool .),
the adult or imago of the {
tomato worm }.
It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth .
Called also {
tomato hawk moth }.
See Illust .
of {
Hawk moth }.
{
Tomato worm } (
Zool .),
the larva of a large hawk moth ({
Manduca quinquemaculata }, {
Protoparce quinquemaculata },
{
Sphinx quinquemaculata },
or {
Macrosila quinquemaculata })
which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants ,
often doing considerable damage .
Called also {
tomato hornworm }
and {
potato worm },
and in the Southern U .
S . {
tobacco fly }.
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "
tomato ":
Irish potato ,
Jane ,
Kraut ,
aubergine ,
babe ,
baby ,
bawd ,
beans ,
biddy ,
bird ,
bitch ,
broad ,
cabbage ,
call girl ,
chick ,
colleen ,
cutie ,
dame ,
damoiselle ,
damsel ,
demoiselle ,
doll ,
drab ,
eggplant ,
fille ,
filly ,
frail ,
gal ,
girl ,
girlie ,
greens ,
heifer ,
hen ,
hoyden ,
jeune fille ,
jill ,
junior miss ,
lass ,
lassie ,
legumes ,
little missy ,
love apple ,
mad apple ,
mademoiselle ,
maid ,
maiden ,
minx ,
miss ,
missy ,
nymphet ,
piece ,
pieplant ,
potato ,
potherbs ,
poule ,
produce ,
rhubarb ,
romp ,
schoolgirl ,
schoolmaid ,
schoolmiss ,
skirt ,
slip ,
spud ,
subdeb ,
subdebutante ,
subteen ,
subteener ,
tater ,
teenybopper ,
tomboy ,
vegetables ,
virgin ,
wench ,
white potato ,
young creature ,
young thing
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